Beer-faucet



H. KOLL.

BEER FAUGET.

(No Model.)

Patented Oct. 22. 1889-1 3 Q O O V w W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY KOLL, OF SOUTH OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

BEER-FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,957, dated October 22, 1889.

Application filed May 16, 1889. Serial No 310,961. (No model.)

.To ail whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY KOLL, a cit-izen of the United States of America, residing at South Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beer-Faucets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact deuseful improvements in attachments for faucets, the object of the same being to provide means for closing the end of a faucet within a casket or barrel, so that the closing-plug can be removed when the pipe through which the contents of the barrel are drawn is inserted in the faucet; and it consists in the improved construction hereinafter described and claimed. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side View showing the application of my invention to a casket placed within a cooler. Fig. 2 is a sectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the stopper detached.

A refers tothe faucet, which is of ordinary construction, except that it is provided with a perforation a, and within this perforation is secured one end of an elastic connection 5, the opposite end having attached thereto or formed thereon a cork or stopper B. If desired, though it is not necessary, the inner side of the faucet near its end may be provided with a groove or recess, within which this elastic connection will lie.

0 refers to the drawing-tube, which is of suflicient length to pass through the walls of thecooler intov the faucet having the stopper, and this tube is provided at one end with an ordinary stop-cock for drawing off the contents of the barrel. WVhen it is desired to insert the faucet within the cask, thetapered end thereof is inserted in an opening formed in the head of the cask and driven in place. The cask may be then handled or set aside until it is desired to use the contents, when the tube O is driven into the faucet, which will push the plug off its seat to permit the contents of, the cask to. flow into the tube. If it should be desired to use the tube in another cask or for other purposes, it can be withdrawn, when the stopper will be drawn by the elastic connection into the end of the faucetto close the same.

This device is designed primarily to be used in connection with beer-faucets.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the extended body of a faucet, of a removable tapered plug independent of the inner end of said tapered portion, and a flexible elastic strip c011- nected to said plug and extending longitudi- 

